Several North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute fellows and affiliated faculty from NDSU and the University of North Dakota presented at the 2014 North Dakota Water Quality Monitoring Conference March 4-6 in Bismarck, N.D.
The institute partnered with North Dakota Department of Health, N.D. State Water Commission, N.D. Game and Fish Department, U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Agriculture to host the event, which was attended by more than 100 water professionals from North Dakota and surrounding states.
G. Padmanabhan, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the institute, served on the conference planning committee.
Francis Casey, professor and director of the NDSU School of Natural Resource Sciences was one of the keynote speakers. His talk was titled “Estrogenic Hormones in the Environment.”
Several past and present North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute graduate fellows, NDSU students and their advisers presented at the conference. Podium presentations included:
- “Under the radar: Nanoparticles and rare earth elements as emerging pollutants” Marinus Otte, NDSU professor of biological sciences, and Donna Jacob, NDSU research assistant professor of biological sciences
- “What, When, and Where in Studying the Best Management Practices (BMPs) in Grand Forks, N.D.” Yeo Howe Lim, UND associate professor of civil engineering
- “Prioritizing aquifer monitoring in North Dakota: Geochemistry is important too” Scott F. Korom, UND associate professor of geology and geological engineering, and William Schuh, North Dakota State Water Commission
- “Plant Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Carbon and Soil Phosphorus in North Dakota Wetlands” NDSU student Lindsey Meyers
- “The National Wetland Condition Assessment in North Dakota: Preliminary Results” Shawn DeKeyser, NDSU associate professor of range science
- “Three Discovery Farms…Three Unique Water Quality Stories” Rochelle Nustad, institute fellow
- “Remediation of Nutrients from Feedlot Runoff by Plants” Arjun Thapa, NDSU student
- "Monitoring tile drainage and subirrigation water quality using electrical conductivity” Xinhua Jia, NDSU associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering
- “Nitrate-Nitrogen in Soil Water as Affected by Nitrogen Management in Sugarbeet under Subsurface Drainage Condition” NDSU student Rakesh Awale
- “Monitoring water quality in Devils Lake in real time” Xiaodong Zhang, UND associate professor of earth systems science and policy
- “Waste Load Allocation Modeling of an Intermittent Stream” Jayme Klecker, NDSU BS ’98, civil engineering
Poster presentations included:
- “Multi-Elements in Pothole Wetlands – investigating the trace and rare earth elements” Donna Jacob, NDSU research assistant professor of biological sciences
- “Ecotoxicity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Suspended in Water” NDSU student Amanda Grosz
- “Iron Cross-linked Biopolymers for Phosphate Removal” NDSU student Mohammad Hossain
- “Uncertainty analysis of load estimation for the nutrient TMDLs for Lake Ashtabula” NDSU student Mengqi Xiong, Zhulu Lin, NDSU assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering and Padmanabhan
- “Mapping the Fate of Nutrients at the Abandoned Crookston Cattle Company Feedlot” Phil Gerla, UND associate professor of geology and UND student Prosper Gbolo
- “Nanoparticles in Water and Interaction in Plants” NDSU student Priyanka Deka
- “Nanoparticles for Remediation and Disinfection of Water” NDSU student Achintyamugdha Sharma
- “Coating Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron with Modified Food Starch for Improved Colloidal Stability” NDSU student Mary Pate
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